schedule

Overview of the Conference Schedule

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

9:00 am - 9:20 am: Welcome 

9:20 am - 9:50 am: Featured Speaker: Dr. Bridgette Stasher-Booker (Alabama State University)

9:50 am - 10:20 am: Plenary Speaker: Dr. Gary Brudvig (Yale University)

10:20 am - 10:35 am: Group Photo

10:35 am - 10:45 am: Break

10:45 am - 12:00 pm: Session 1

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch on your own 

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Session 2

3:00 pm - 3:10 pm: Break

3:10 pm - 4:10 pm: Session 3

Thursday, March 16, 2017

9:00 am - 9:30 am: Featured Speaker: Dr. Shreekumar Pillai (Alabama State University)

9:30 am - 10:35 am: ASU Sesquicentennial Session 

10:35 am - 10:45 am: Break

10:45 am - 12:00 noon: Session 4

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm: Poster Session with box lunch

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Session 5

3:00 pm - 3:10 pm: Break

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm: Session 6

3:40 pm - 4:00 pm: Awards and Closing Remarks 

4:00 pm: Departure

Detailed Conference Schedule 

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

9:00 am - 9:20 am: Welcome 

         9:00 am - 9:04 am: Harvey Hou (Chair of the 2017 Research Symposium Committee)

9:04 am - 9:12 am: Kennedy Wekesa (Dean of College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Alabama State University) and Cheryl Easley (Dean of College of Health Sciences, Alabama State University)

9:12 am - 9:16 am: Karyn Scissum-Gunn (Interim Provost, Alabama State University)

9:16 am - 9:20 am: Leon Wilson (Interim President, Alabama State University)

9:20 am - 9:50 am: Featured Talk

Bridgette Stasher-Booker, The Last Stand: The state of Alabama’s last undergraduate Health Information Management (HIM) program, (Alabama State University)

        Chair: Cheryl Easley (Alabama State University)

9:50 am - 10:20 am: Plenary Talk

        Gary Brudvig, Learning from Nature How to Make Solar Fuels, (Yale University)

        Chair: Harvey Hou (Alabama State University)

10:20 am - 10:35 am: Group Photo

10:35 am - 10:45 am: Break

10:45 am - 12:00 am: Contributed Talk Session 

        Chair: Sapna Jain (Alabama State University)

10:45 am - 11:00 am: OP01

Elizabeth Gardner, Comparison of Enhancing Agents in Aged Eccrine and Prints prior to Development by the Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method, (University of Alabama Birmingham)

11:00 am - 11:15 am: OP02

Rachelle Shelton, Forensic Drug Chemistry in Alabama, (Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences)

11:15 am - 11:30 am: OP03

Azriel Gorski, Forensic Microanalysis of Fibers from the Kyrenia Ship (4th century BCE), (Alabama State University) 

11:30 am - 11:45 pm: OP04

B.K. Robertson, Water Conservation—a Global Problem, (Alabama State University)

11:45 pm - 12:00 pm: OP05

Robert Villafane, Molecular Dissection of a Protein binding site-protein interaction at a protein interface, (Alabama State University) 

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch on your own 

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Contributed Talk Session 2

Chair: Elizabeth A Gardner (University of Alabama Birmingham)

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm: OP06

Veronica Alston, Chemar Hutley, Aiesha Ethridge, Richard Whittington, Michael Curry, and Raymond Shange, Variation in the Health of Catfish in Association with Carcinogenic Compounds and Gulf Pollution, (Tuskegee University)

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm: OP07

Daenique Jengelley, Xin Tong, Tatsuyoshi M. Kono, and Carmella Evans-Molina, Pro-Inflammatory Stress Leads to Down-Regulation of Stromal Interaction Molecule and Altered Store-Operated Ca2+ Entry in the Pancreatic β cell, (Tuskegee University)

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm: OP08

Veolanda A. Peoples, Stephanie Barrow, Ronda Bibbs, and Mamie T. Coats, Nanoparticles Functionalized with PenicillinEffect the Viability of Multi- Antibiotic-Resistant Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, (Alabama State University)

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm: OP09

Karthikeya Venkatesan, Joseph Ayariga, Jeremie Williams, and Robert Villafane., Lytic Bacteriophages Offer a Viable Alternative to counteract Emerging Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Strains, (Alabama State University) 

3:00 pm - 3:10 pm: Break

3:10 pm - 4:10 pm: Contributed Talk Session 3

        Chair: Wei Zhan (Auburn University)

3:10 pm - 3:25 pm: OP10

Rajnish Sahu, Saurabh Dixit, Shree R. Singh, and Vida A. Dennis, Assessment of Intracellular Distribution and Processing of Chlamydia Nanovaccine in Mouse Primary Dendritic Cells, (Alabama State University) 

3:25 pm - 3:40 pm: OP11

Christian Lee, Vida A. Dennis, Komal Vig, and Shree R. Singh, Nanobiomaterials and their applications in tissue/skin regeneration,  (Alabama State University) 

3:40 pm - 3:55 pm: OP12

Joseph Atia Ayariga, Karthikeya Venkatesan, Jeremie Williams, and Robert Villafane, Characterization of the E34 Salmonella Phage Tail, (Alabama State University) 

3:55 pm - 4:10 pm: OP13

James Stokes III, Sanjay Kumar, Sabita Saldanha, Karyn Scissum Gunn, Udai P. Singh, and Manoj Mishra, Combination of resveratrol with short-chain fatty acids modulate apoptotic markers in prostate cancer, (Alabama State University) 

Thursday, March 16, 2017

9:00 am - 9:30 am: Featured Talk

        Shreekumar Pillai, The Quest for Efffective Antibacterials, (Alabama State University)

        Chair: Douglas Strout (Alabama State University)

9:30 am - 10:35 am: ASU Sesquicentennial Session 

Chair: Mamie Coats (Alabama State University)

9:30 am - 9:50 am: OP14

Thelma Ivery, Our Story: From College of Arts and Sciences to C-STEM, (Alabama State University) 

9:50 am - 10:05 am: OP15

Kennedy Wekesa, C-STEM: The beginning, (Alabama State University) 

          10:05 am - 10:20 am: OP16

Basil A. Kandah and Cajetan M. Akujuobi, Noise Removal of ECG Signals Using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), (Prairie View A&M University)

10:20 am - 10:35 am: OP17

Douglas Strout, The Journey: The Research Symposium Then and Now, (Alabama State University) 

10:35 am - 10:45 am: Break

10:45 am - 12:00 noon: Contributed Talk Session 4

Chair: Audrey Napier (Alabama State University)

10:45 am - 11:00 am: OP18

D’Andrea Ashmore, Atul A. Chaudhari, Shree R. Singh, Vida A. Dennis, and Shreekumar R. Pillai, Silver-Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone (Ag-PVP), AgNP, and other Functionalized Silver Nanoparticles Antibacterial Effects Against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis, (Alabama State University) 

11:00 am - 11:15 am: OP19

Timothy Egbo, C. Sanders, C. Miller, A. Waffo, and B. Robertson, Isolation, Screening and Characterization of Hg Resistant Bacteria Capable of Extracellular Biosorption of Hg, (Alabama State University) 

11:15 am - 11:30 am: OP20

Amber Grace, Deepa Bedi, and Komal Vig, Examining the Potential of Phages to Avoid Endosomal Entrapment in MDA MB 231 Cells, (Alabama State University) 

11:30 am - 11:45 am: OP21

Flamoun Johnson and MT Coats, Frequency of Pneumococcal Serotype 6 Subgroups in Children in Central Alabama, (Alabama State University) 

11:45 pm - 12:00 pm: OP22

Jeremie Williams, Karthikeya Venkatesan, Joseph Ayariga, Hongzuan Wu, Doba Jackson, and Robert Villafane, Critical amino acids in TSP NTD chain interactions, (Alabama State University) 

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm: Poster Session with box lunch

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Contributed Talk Session 5

        Chair: Cleon Barnett (Alabama State University)

2:00 pm - 2:15 noon: OP23

Stephanie Barrow, B.K. Robertson, and Mamie Coats, Using Antimicrobial Films to Prevent the Transmission of Infection, (Alabama State University) 

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm:  OP24

Shanlin Pan, Jue Wang, Xiaoniu Peng, Pravin Shinde and Yanxiao Ma, Alternative Energy Harvesting and Conversion: Nanostructured Photoelectrode Systems for Enhancing Solar Water Splitting, (University of Alabama)

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm: OP25

Chunhua Feng and Carl S. Pettis, Partial stability: an interesting phenomenon for a system of coupled unbalance dampled Duffing oscillators with delays, (Alabama State University)

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm: OP26

B. Ghimire, H.Y. Tian, and A. R. Lamichhane, Numerical Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations Using Chebyshev Polynomials, (Alabama State University)

3:00 pm - 3:10 pm: Break

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm: Contributed Talk Session 6

        Chair: Maureen Murphy (Huntingdon College)

3:10 pm - 3:25 pm: OP27

Bruce W. Suter and Yi Wang, Sparse representation with non-linear Fourier atoms, (Auburn University Montgomery)

3:25 pm - 3:40 pm: OP28

Harvey Hou, Recent Advances in Photosynthesis and its Relevance to the Production of Solar Fuel, Biofuel, and Hydrogen Energy: A Book Project and A Collaborative Team, (Alabama State University)

3:40 pm - 3:55 pm: Symposium Student Awards 

Chair: Kennedy Wekesa (Dean of College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Alabama State University)

3:55 pm - 4:00 pm: Closing Remarks 

        Harvey Hou (Chair of the 2017 Research Symposium Committee)

4:00 pm: Departure

Copyright by the 2017 Research Symposium Committee